[Bug 808440] [NEW] empathy shows new msn contacts as offline

[Giorgos Akrivas]

Public bug reported:

while "old"msn contacts, i.e. contacts that were already in my contact
list when I first install empahty are shown fine, however, when I add a
new msn contact, although the contact is indeed added (and the other
person sees my status as online and is able to chat with me), its status
is incorrectly shown as offline. I am able to chat with the new contact
if I select "show offline contacts", it is just that the status is shown
incorrectly.

How to duplicate the issue:

1. create a new msn contact
2. have the new contact sign in
3. notice that the status is offline

what should happen instead:
should see the status of the new contact as online

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 10 20:47:56 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:2740): libappindicator-WARNING **: Unable to connect to the Notification Watcher: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.94 was not provided by any .service files

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug apport-lpi i386 natty running-unity

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